Madhya Pradesh win Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy title after Anushka Sharma stars-OxBig News Network

Anushka Sharma and Kranti Gaud starred as Madhya Pradesh won the Senior Women’s One-Day Trophy 2024-25 after beating Bengal by seven wickets in the final on Monday, December 30 at the Niranjan Shah Stadium in Rajkot. Gaud took four wickets while Anushka scored an unbeaten fifty as MP took down the 2018–19 champions in a one-sided grand finale to claim the title for the first time.

After being asked to bat first, Bengal, who set the record for the highest run-chase in List A cricket earlier, were bowled out for 136 in 38.2 overs. Gaud wreaked havoc early in the innings after dismissing Dhara Gujjar, Sasthi Mondal and Richa Ghosh in quick succession. Later, Gaud took the wicket of Titas Sadhu to finish with figures of 9-1-25-4.

Shuchi Uapdhyay, Priyanka and Kaushal and Vaishnavi Sharma took two wickets apiece. For Bengal, Priyanka Bala top-scored with 42 runs off 74 balls, laced with six fours. Tanusree Sarkar and Mita Paul made 21 and 25 respectively. After losing three wickets for 16 runs in the fifth over, Bengal could never recover.

Anushka steps up for Madhya Pradesh

The run-chase was expected to be straightforward for MP and it turned out exactly that way. Sadhu dismissed opener Jincy George early, but Anushka and Ananya Dubey laid the platform with an 82-run stand for the second wicket. Sadhu got rid of Dubey, who made 27, and Soumya Tiwari, but it was all too late for Bengal to make a comeback.

Anushka stayed not out on 69 off 102 balls, laced with nine fours. Aayushi Shukla, who was a part of India U19’s title-winning campaign in the Asia Cup, came out with intent. The left-handed batter scored an unbeaten 30 off 29 balls with six fours as MP romped home with 15.2 overs left in their innings.